Volume 26, Number 3 · March 8, 1979
A Revolutionary Artist
By John Pope-Hennessy
Antonio and Piero Pollaiuolo: Complete Edition with a Critical Catalogue
by Leopold D. Ettlinger
Phaidon, 183 162 illus pp., $75.00
'With a new access of brutality, force, this time essentially forcible, was recovered. We are with Antonio Pollajuolo, as a painter one of the principal of the Florentine 'fauves,' dead set on the strains and stresses of anatomical working at rest and in movement and conflict.' The writer is that now largely forgotten figure Adrian Stokes, who in 1932 correctly apprehended what no academic art historian had up to then acknowledged, that Pollajuolo was not simply a great but a revolutionary artist as well.
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